Friday, August 10, 2012

All around the internets I find eclectic links

If you can catch this documentary, it's well worth your time: The Secret History of the Credit Card. It was featured on Frontline on PBS several years ago. If anyone has trouble with getting into debt, this may induce you to never use the things again.

Len Penzo has his annual breakdown of the least expensive sandwiches for people who brown-bag it. Though I'll note that even the most expensive sandwich to make is less than lunch out.

That sandwich post was pretty interesting, although to be honest I thought they'd be cheaper than that. I can't be dealing with the value bread though, that stuff goes hard after one day and mouldy after two!!

I've heard that a lot of millionaires stick to a (relatively) tight budget so that most of their money is reinvested into working harder for them in the future. Sounds like we could learn from them, even on low incomes!

Thanks for the sandwich breakdown post! I haven't seen that before and it's helpful, especially with a new school year looming. Glad to see our not-so-exciting but easy-peasy PB&J had such a good ranking!

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This blog is called Feral Homemaking because unlike other blogs out there, I am not a stay-at-home mom (no kids, actually, though I love being an aunt) or a full-time homemaker. I work a paying job that I quite enjoy. I was never one of those people who couldn't do basic things like laundry, but I had a lot to learn, and am still learning.
This blog is for anyone--anyone at all--who enjoys cooking, who wants to pick up different ways to save money, or who wants to improve their homemaking skills. Even if you work full time, you have to eventually have to do this stuff.
At any rate, you'll all feel better about the skills you already have since, frankly, you'll hear more about my misadventures than my triumphs.